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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Something totally new! This is ModCloth's Vivacious and Vibrant dress. I chose a beautiful turquoise rayon challis for the fabric. I'm not terribly in love with the fixed white waistband of this ModCloth dress. I think adding a simple ribbon belt would be much better. That way you can change the look as you want. Brown belt and cowboy boots? Perfect. Red belt and patent pumps? Done. White waistband all the time? Not so great. I found New Look 6567 for this Fashion Plate. What do you think?

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

This cutout
neckline dress must be the style of the spring. ModCloth has loads of
dresses in this same silhouette. It makes it easy for me to make new
Fashion Plates! This is ModCloth's As Days Go Binary dress. The fabric is Kaufman's Plug and Play Circuit Board in navy, though the same fabric is available in green if that's more your style. I'm using New Look 6020
again. Why change a good thing? The ModCloth dress has pockets. I
find that side seam pockets are very easy to add to a pattern. Perhaps
I'll write up a tutorial for that in the near future. It is super
simple.

I'll be on the lookout for a totally different silhouette for next week. :)